Contingent Work – American Employment Relations in Transition Barker Christensen

Contingent WorkAmerican Employment Relations in Transition\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Barker, Kathleen Christensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9780801433696, 978-0801433696\nSynopsis\nThe successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent workan umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business for.